The 2019 graduate from Greensboro, N.C., began a two-year term on the Board of Trustees on June 1.
The ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Board of Trustees has elected 2019 graduate Kenneth Brown Jr. to a two-year term as a youth trustee on the board beginning June 1.
Brown is from Greensboro, N.C., and graduated May 24 with a degree in human service studies. After receiving his ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ degree, Brown now begins a two-year paid fellowship with the A.J. Fletcher Foundation in Raleigh, N.C., which supports organizations that work to improve the lives and wellbeing of North Carolinians.
Brown is a recipient of the Odyssey Program’s Leon and Lorraine Watson Scholarship and he was deeply involved in the Student Government Association during his four years at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ. Brown served as class president during his first two years and as SGA executive president during his final year at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ.
During his tenure with SGA, Brown championed the “One Phoenix” campaign and the creation of The ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Ball. He guided SGA response to national and local emergencies and disasters and pushed for a more effective funding model for student activities fees. In 2016 he was named a North Carolina Campus Compact Newman Civic Fellow and he has received the SGA Rising Star Award as well as multiple Phillips-Perry Black Excellence Awards. Brown studied in Scotland during his junior year.
A strong advocate for service and community engagement, Brown served as a summer mentor for incoming Odyssey Program scholars, as a CREDE student coordinator and was a special events coordinator for the Black Student Union. He was a tutor with the Positive Attitude Youth Center and an ESL teacher’s assistant at Alamance Community College, he interned with the Greensboro Urban project and he was a tutor with the It Takes a Village Project.